Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Ink yourself silly: glass charms

HI :o)After the handbag charm, Gio is here with us today to show you how she made those gorgeous glass charms. Love the vibrant colours, this would look soooo nice on the table. What do you think? Let us know in a comment below...

I took a Stampbord domino. I stamped with black Stazon and PaperArtsy Hotpicks 1006.

I started to colour with distress Ink, picking colours with a finger covered with a baby wipe I started with the light colour and trying to blend the colours together.

I covered one side of the tile with Versamark and silver embossing powder. I heated with the heatgun and embossed all 4 sides.

Tip of the dayYou can double emboss, to get a faux soldering effect.

With the same rubber plate I created little embellishments out of shrink plastic, stamping with Black and Red Stazon, cutting the images and shrinking with the heat-gun (remember to make a hole in the plastic before melting)

I made two holes on the tile and I added beads and embellishments.

This tiles are perfect to use as keyrings, because they are unbreakeable and light, but I used them as "glass charms".

To make these kind of charms you have to use a long head-pins and bending it on one side, creating a loop to use to hang the charm to the glass.

I love these, such wonderful colours and stamps. I would never have thought to blend distress inks with a baby wipe though and as I sometimes struggle with making my blending look good, this is something I'm definitely going to try out. Thanks for sharing your tips!

hi, I'm not sure what Gio used, but I find that the crop-A-dile is the best tool ever (http://www.thecraftbarn.co.uk/product.php/18186/crop-a-dile). And it's definitely what I use on my stampbord pieces.Hope that helps.Izzy

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